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Cracks down on voter suppression. it calls for nationwide automatic same-day voting registration. orourke also pushing to expand early voting and make election day a national holiday. voter turnout has been a central issue in orourkes campaign, as he looks to stand out in that crowded field of 2020 democrats. also rolling out a big plan today to legalize marijuana nationwide. democratic presidential candidate senator kirsten gillibrand. she says that current laws disproportionately affect black ...

I thought we were a country founded on immigrants. its about voting registration. disenfranchising residents of the community. its not only in the language the republicans are speaking, the actions they are taking and the policies they are setting. it starts with the president. >> stick around. theres more news we are covering. we are going live to syria where u.s. troop withdrawal ordered by president trump is there. ok, lets huff and puff. like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have co...

Realize pennsylvania has gone blue and wisconsin has gone blue. there are a lot of trump states that have gone blue, but florida is seen by people in that state as donald trumps home state. i mean, its the one swing state that he seems to still have the advantage in. >> and it seems to have solidified. it didnt matter the young voting registration that the parkland kids did. i mean, it did matter, but it didnt pull it over the finish line and i know that that has to be incredibly demoralizing th...

Suddenly. whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it come up with those in seek to undermine every institution of it or a norm that democracy meaning. >> jason: and michelle obama is back in the public spotlight storing in a so-called nonpartisan psa with other celebrities that encourages voting registration. joining me now to explain whats going on here is mike huckabee, he fox news contributor and former governor of arkansas. governor, thank you so much for...

Whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, but those in power seek to undermine every institution of it or a norm that gives democracy meaning. >> jason: and michelle obama is back in the public spotlight starring in a so-called nonpartisan psa with other celebrities that encourages voting registration. joining me now to explain whats going on here is mike huckabee, a fox news contributor and former governor of arkansas. governor, thank you so much for being...

Inspired. it started a year ago. the enormous womens mar thatch happened all over the country. the big nest washington, d.c. but we saw them in huge cities and small towns as well and internationally. we saw a repeat of that. people coming out in force across the country and this voting rights rally here in las vegas is way to get that energy channelled toward voting registration, voter mobilization, getting people to polls and influence the vote in 2018. >> obviously seeing this wave of politic...

23rd. nothing new here. were just hearing it anew. >> david frum, 21 states they have evidence of an attempt to interfere with voting. could be with voting registration. could be with other elements of the voting process. >> well, so far it sounds like those attempts were reasonably ine fectual and defeated by the slovenliness of the voting system. if there was a more modern voting system, the attacks might have been more successful. there are a lot of questions about the obama administration th...

The validation of the information that the media has been putting out for some time. this is not a hoax. jeh johnson had been with the director of the cia and president obama and director of national intelligence when they made a statement to the nation that this nation was attacked. now were seeing the current director of cybersecurity, the current director at the fbi all validating the analysis thats been put out ever since the cia released their report september 23rd. nothing new here. were j...

Going to make obamacare in every aspect or obamacare at all. the stuff im doing is above politics. jerry handering. freedom of the press, freedom of dissent. and so forth. these are structural constitutional things, hes going back to his constitutional law but doing it as a way to stay in politics. hes being deliberately naive there. voting rights, voting registration, they are the essence of american politics. so hes given himself license to participate as much as he wants, but in the high-mind...

Its all politics, but we dont have the time to get into it. you worried it could affect the county and the county will be less republican and you might lose and donald trump will lose? >> republicans are coming back home. we are ahead now as far as voting registration and we feel very good about this thing. >> you are correct in that republicans outnumbered democrats, but this this county, latino voters registered 150,000 new voters this year alone. you obviously have a contentious relationshi...